Re: What's left over.

Erik Andersen
2002-11-01T16:10:13Z

On Fri Nov 01, 2002 at 03:25:01PM +0000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> funny - I'd be surprised if RL throughput copying back and forth over a
> PCI bus is more than 25-30MB/s), I suspect that you can do most crypto
> faster on the CPU directly these days.
>
> Maybe not. The only numbers I have is the slowness of PCI.

It may be faster on your beefy 8 CPU boxes. But many people are
creating, for example, little wireless access points with 200 Mhz
StrongArm CPUs and similar little devices that lack the major CPU
horsepower of big-iron system. Such boxes would be far better
off offloading crypto to a little crypto chip, right?

-Erik

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